See the guy in the beard in the front row? Look to the left and over his head… I look perplexed. These are some of my notes from the third and final lecture in the Earle Lecture Series at NTS, given this year by Brent Strawn. You can follow these links for notes on [Read More...]

LECTURE 02 – Signs of Morbidity The analogy Strawn is making is that the Old Testament is like a language, so it can be learned and spoken or forgotten and die. The way in which the OT is dying can be tracked much in the same way linguists might track the death of a once [Read More...]

Brent Strawn is giving the Earle Lectures on Biblical Literature at Nazarene Theological Seminary today. Brent has a PhD. from Princeton & teaches at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. The Earle Lectures are done in 3 parts and part three is today. Dr. Strawn’s series has been titled The Old Testament is Dying: a [Read More...]

I confess that I have not learned yet how to keep quiet and serve others. I confess that the following confessions are all over the place. I confess that I finally did a full shut down on my computer last week for the first time in about a month. I confess that when it came [Read More...]

The Official Hub for all things Hogwarts is officially live and ready for your exploration. Text from the landing page of the website says: “Explore the Harry Potter stories in a while new way and discover exclusive new writing from J.K. Rowling. The first story in the series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, is [Read More...]

I’m slogging through Hans Urs Von Balthasar’s The Glory of the Lord, Vol. I., Seeing the Form – it’s a Theological Aesthetics (not a theology of aesthetics… Von would want that to be clear – I like call him Von as if we are old friends, it helps me to not become frustrated). Let’s not [Read More...]

This is a pretty amazing story. Newark Mayor Cory Booker literally ran into a burning house last night & rescued a woman who would have certainly died otherwise. He said in the midst of the feeling of being trapped by the fire, he was thinking he might be a goner. He described it as a [Read More...]

My friend Isaac Anderson has an essay in the current Image Journal. For those of you who already know Isaac & his work – you can click here and buy the current issue & have Isaac’s essay delivered to you. For those of you who don’t know Isaac – allow me to introduce you, then [Read More...]

Chanel 8 in Dallas is reporting that Ed Young is now under investigation by Grapevine Police to see if his church violated any animal safety laws in their inclusion of a live Lion in last Sunday’s worship service. The investigation is silly & will probably not result in any charges. As silly as it is, [Read More...]

The New York Times published a 2 part story by Stanley Fish which deals with how we deal with evidence in Science and Religion. It’s well done & I recommend that you take 15 minutes and read the whole thing. Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here. Here’s a quick summary for those who [Read More...]